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Sirach 9:8-10
Revised Standard Version
Sirach 9:8-10
Revised Standard Version
8 Turn away your eyes from a shapely woman,
and do not look intently at beauty belonging to another;
many have been misled by a woman’s beauty,
and by it passion is kindled like a fire.
9 Never dine with another man’s wife,
nor revel with her at wine;
lest your heart turn aside to her,
and in blood[a] you be plunged into destruction.
Choice of Friends
10 Forsake not an old friend,
for a new one does not compare with him.
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
Footnotes
- Sirach 9:9 Heb: Gk by your spirit
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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